Mobile Phone Radiation Lowers Sperm Count

Trending News: This Surprisingly Benign Thing Can“Cook” Your Sperm

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Fertility specialists have found that carrying a mobile phone in your front pocket can significant lower your sperm levels. But who doesn’t do this?!

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On leaving the house, it’s common to do the old pants pat down for your keys, wallet and phone. But you might want to check that your sperm are all there too, because according to a new study, carrying your phone in your front pant pocket can “cook” your boys. In fact, scientists at the Technion University in Israel who performed the study, went so far as to say that sperm levels can be lowered to the point where it makes conceiving difficult.

And it’s not just carrying your phone near your balls that can be bad for your fertility — the researchers say that even being a foot or two away from a mobile phone, or sleeping with one next to your bed, can fry your sperm. Since we live in a world where most of us are never more than a few feet away from multiple phones at any one time, this is very worrying news indeed.

The study, published in the journal Reproductive BioMedicine, involved over a hundred men who attended a fertility clinic for a year. The researchers found that during that time, the sperm levels of 47% of the men who kept their phones in their pockets were significantly lowered. In comparison, this tends to happen to only 11% of men in the general population.

"We think this is being caused by a heating of the sperm from the phone and by electromagnetic activity," says Professor Martha Dirnfeld, who worked on the study. Basically, the existence of mobile phones is the prequel to the beginning of the real Planet of the Apes.